Rationality at Work

Logics of Collective Action in the Labour Market
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-3-7046-5852-4
Verlag: Verlag Österreich GmbH

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

Wage setting arrangements are widely seen as key ingredients to macro-economic success. Examining their micro-foundations is an urgent task. Drawing on a treasure chest of empirical insights amassed by other social scientists, this ground-breaking book argues that economists have neglected the institutional underpinning of wage bargaining at their peril. Starting from Olson's insight that workers and firms often fail to pursue their collective interests, the book explains how self-reinforcing effects can promote group action - and how this contributed to the shifts in fortune of countries such as Sweden, Ireland and Austria.This book should cause heated scholarly debates. But it assumes no prior knowledge and is highly readable. A short foreword, largely self-contained chapters and a glossary make it easy to navigate.The tools it presents will prove useful to scholars, practitioners, policy-makers or indeed anyone interested in the economic effects of unions and employer associations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doralt, Peter

Doralt, Peter M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

From the contents:
- Introduction
- Collective action as a prisoner's dilemma
- The logic of self-reinforcing effects in collective action
- Centralisation of Wage Bargaining and Macro-economic Performance: Revisiting Existing Theories and Tests
- Workers, Firms and their Representatives: Two Logics of Collective Action?
- The evolution of central bargaining systems: Theory and Practice
- Conclusion